CCTC pins 18 new medical assistants

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Central Carolina Technical College’s Health Sciences Division pinned 18 new medical assistants during ceremonies held Aug. 2 in the Iris Room of the Health Sciences Center in downtown Sumter.

The Health Sciences Division offers diplomas in surgical technology and medical assisting, along with associates degrees in nursing and certificates in massage therapy, medical record coding and pharmacy technology.

Health Sciences programs are designed to provide graduates with immediate employment in the healthcare industry or prepare graduates to transfer to articulating colleges.

Medical assistants are broadly defined as individuals who assist other health care professionals in offices and/or other medical settings, performing delegated administrative and clinical duties in accordance with respective state laws governing such actions and activities.

Clarendon residents receiving diplomas in medical assisting include Courtney L. Evans, Amanda M. Grigg and Gracie S. Mitchell.

Neighboring students receiving diplomas include Richland's Tiffany B. mcLean; and Sumter's Sharee A. Canty, Santana M. Corkran, Barbara A. Deas, Lindsay T. Griffin, Lisa J. Hazuda, Dy’Shala C. Johnson, Sherelle S. Mack, Lakimbria K. Porcher, Morgan E. Richburg, Edith M. Sims, Joe A. Sims, Kimberly A. Stearns, Sophie M. Wilson and

Regina M. Wright.